August 2011 ~ The HooD

Watch the Throne goes gold, while Eminem’s last solo album goes four times platinum…

For the second week in row, Jay-Z and Kanye West, collectively known as The Throne, sit comfortably at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
According to the Nielsen SoundScan report, released today (August 24), the duo’s LP, Watch the Throne, sold 176,800 units over the last seven days, bringing the rap superstar’s total numbers to 612,900. And like the color of the CD’s cover art, the disc is know officially certified gold.
The next rap release on the charts comes from another duo; Eminem and Royce Da 5’9”. The Motor City MCs’ EP, Hell: The Sequel, landed at No. 13 this week, after collecting 19,500 more fans. In 10 weeks, Bad Meets Evil has a total sales figure of 463,000.
Rounding out the Top 40 is Ace Hood and Nicki Minaj. Hood’s Blood, Sweat & Tears fell to No. 34 and pushed out 10,700 more units this week, while Ms. Minaj moved up to No. 37 with an additional 9,900 units of Pink Friday flying off shelves. Overall AH has 36,500 in sales and the Young Money princess 1,543,400.
Eminem’s Recovery didn’t make it into the Top 40 this week, but it manage to reach 4 million in sales. The Detroit wordsmith’s sixth solo LP for Interscope Records, which was released in June of 2010, sold 8,800 units last week alone.
Check back with Hoodclickerz.blogspot.com next week to find out how Game’s The R.E.D. Album does on the Billboard 200. —kelvin nkya

Game’s long-awaited fourth solo LP, The Red Album, finally hits stores tomorrow, August 23. And as you’ll see from the tracklisting, the Compton MC is still well loved by his peers. Dr. Dre, Drake, Lil Wayne, LLoyd, Wale, Mario, Cool and Dre and host of other contributed to the project. The Compton King says one of the records he’s most excited for people to hear is ” Born in the Trap,” which was produced by DJ Premier.
“I got with Preemo,” Game told Hoodclickerz.blogspot.com. “That joint is ready rock. You know Preem, he don’t wanna work with everybody.”
Game also revealed that the Preemo track was the first he laid down for Red when he started working on the album just about three years ago.
“Preem, he had the scratches in,” Chuck Taylor said. “He had it mixed. I had the finished, mixed and mastered ‘Born in the Trap’ ready before anybody [else] turned in anything.”
One record that has potential to be a single is “Speakers On Blast” with E-40 and Big Boi. The four verse song may have to be edited to fit radio format.
“I always wanted to have E-40 on my albums,” he explained. “I never had the right beat or right songs. Then I always wanted Big Boi. But this song, I already had 40 on it, then I had two verses, so I was like ‘I don’t know how I’mma get three people on a song that already had two verses . I made it a four verse song. Big heard it and jumped on it and murdered it. ‘Speakers on Blast.’”
Then of course, one of the tracks that is definitely going to make people talk is “Martians Vs Goblins” with Lil Wayne and Tyler, the Creator. Tyler calls singer Bruno Mars a homosexual while Game’s bars include kidnapping Rhianna, murdering Lil B, having sex with Erykah Badu and LeBron James’ mother.
“I called them both simultaneously,” Game said about recruiting Weezy and Tyler. “I’m a good dude, I have great rapport with a lot of great people. Weezy knocked his [part] out quick. Tyler, I took it over to him. And he took a hour and murdered it. We jammed to it all night.
“It might be just a crazy lineup album,” Game added. “It’s hard! I can’t wait to see what people think about it. I spent so much time working on it.” —kelvin nkya